THE FACULTY OF
ART, DESIGN &
ARCHITECTURE
The Design School
Andy Haslam & Phil Davies
THE FACULTY
OF ART, DESIGN
&
ARCHITECTURE
The Design School
The School of Art & Design History
The School of Architecture & Landscape The School of Fine Art
Our art school heritage - Kingston
School of Art was founded in the 1890s and is the founding institution of the University.
WHAT WE
DO
•Learning through making with the extensive digital and analogue workshops
•Industry linked and supported
•Disciplinary focus, which allows interdisciplinarity
•Cross-disciplinary learning results from being a single campus
•Dedicated studio culture
•International focus
•External programme of shows &
exhibitions, e.g.
Graduate Fashion Week London Design Festival New Designers
D&AD New Blod
Our own gallery space…
WHO WE ARE
•The Faculty is ranked amongst the highest in the UK for
art and design in the Guardian’s 2015 league table
•The Design School is named 14th worldwide in
the recent Red Dot design rankings as one of the most
innovative schools across the USA & Europe
•The Fashion dept. was named as fifth best in the world
by influential fashion blog Refinery 29 and fourth by fashionista.com and has fourth position in the Guardian’s 2015 league table.
•The School of Architecture & Landscape features in
Domus magazine’s 50 top schools and is ranked 2nd in London in the Guardian’s
THE DESIGN SCHOOL
UNDERGRADUATE BA(Hons) Fashion
BA(Hons) Product & Furniture Design BA(Hons) Interior Design
BA(Hons) Graphic Design
BA(Hons) Illustration Animation
POSTGRADUATE
MA Communication Design: Illustration
MA Communication Design: Graphic Design MA Sustainable Design
MA Design: Product & Space MA Fashion
MA Fashion: Knit
THE DESIGN
SCHOOL
OUR PHILOSOPHY
Tomorrow’s designers need to be able to think critically and act
practically; they are required to be contextually insightful & creative and therefore well placed to meet new challenges in a strategic, ambitious and perhaps entrepreneurial manner.
The School is concerned with creative rigour in the context of
Design education, practice, research and enterprise. It is a critically
engaged community of Design
practitioners, educators, researchers and entrepreneurs. It is a school which is discipline focused and in which making is central to its practice.
OUR INDUSTRY CONTACTS
Industry contacts are extensive and there is much engagement with
professional practice and the outside world through live industry projects
THE SCHOOL OF
ARCHITECTURE &
LANDSCAPE
ARCHITECTURE COURSES:
UNDERGRADUATE
BA(Hons) Architecture (Part 1 ARB/RIBA)
BSc Historic Building Conservation
ARCHITECTURE COURSES:
POSTGRADUATE
MArch Architecture Prof. Practice (Part 2 ARB/RIBA)
Postgraduate Diploma (Part 3 ARB/RIBA)
MA Architecture
MA Urban Design & Planning
ARCHITECTURE
OUR PHILOSOPHY
Thinking through making: we encourage you
to unravel theory, explore places, materials and technology, and delight in the poetry of craft
and making.
OUR TEACHING
Staff are drawn from across London’s best architectural practices,
combining intellectual rigour with practical experience.
LIVE PROJECTS
The School engages with the real world working on live projects with industry and other organisations.
OUR INDUSTRY CONTACTS Teaching takes place through a studio system into which there is much industry input.
THE SCHOOL OF
ART & DESIGN
HISTORY
UNDERGRADUATE
BA(Hons) Art History with Fine Art BA(Hons) Art & Design: History, Communication, Curation
POSTGRADUATE
MA Art & Design History MA Arts Market Appraisal (Professional Practice)
MA Museum & Gallery Studies MA Museum & Gallery Studies and the
Creative Economy
THE SCHOOL OF
ART & DESIGN
HISTORY
OUR PHILOSOPHY
Our approach is broad: you can explore a range
of subjects including modern and contemporary
art and design.
OUR TEACHING
Staff are practising art and design historians
with extensive knowledge and expertise.
OUR RESEARCH
Staff contribute to a number of research centres
and groups and are widely published.
OUR INDUSTRY CONTACTS
THE SCHOOL OF
FINE ART
UNDERGRADUATE BA(Hons) Fine Art
BA(Hons) Fine Art and Art History BA(Hons) Photography
BA(Hons) Filmmaking
FdA Art and Design [with Kingston College]
POSTGRADUATE MA Art & Space MA Photography MFA Fine Art
MA Experimental Film
THE SCHOOL OF
FINE ART
OUR PHILOSOPHY
Priority is given to individual artistic practice,
the making of work, and the understanding of this within the context of contemporary art.
There is also an emphasis on
exhibiting work both individually and collectively.
OUR TEACHING
You will be taught by specialists whose collective experience offers a broad teaching platform and a range of practical and conceptual inputs.
OUR RESEARCH
Research in the School aims to provide an intellectual and creative milieu for innovation in contemporary fine art.
OUR FACILITIES
We have retained the traditional facilities and craft focus from our art school
heritage – and we still make things at Kingston!
However we recognize the importance of new technologies and so the focus is that of joining the traditional with the cutting edge.
To support this focus we have invested
£12 million
over the last 5 years and now have some of the best facilities in the UK:
•Industry-standard filming studio for Moving Image
•Extensive 3D Workshop: ranging from traditional to
cutting-edge technology
•Fashion workshops including digital knitting machines
•Professional-level Photography
Workshop in both digital and analogue
FACILITIES
CONTINUED
• The new Esteve-Coll Learning Resource Centre
• CAD, 2D+3D design software in Digital Media Workshop
• Retaining traditional printmaking workshop and foundry
• Our own Gallery space: Platform
• The Stanley Picker Gallery: an Arts Council funded,
on-campus gallery, which has a
diverse programme of exhibitions and events.
INDUSTRY
COLLABORATIONS
Banana Republic, BBC, Brooks Bros, Canary Wharf Group, Creative Review, Dewhirst, Dreamworks, French Connection, Graduate Fashion Week, Hannah Barry Gallery, Lawn Tennis Association, L’Oreal, New Balance, Rimmel London, Seat, Sony, Samsung, Transport for London, Vauxhall Fashion Scout…
CULTURAL
ORGANISATIONS
Architecture Foundation, Arts Council, BBC, BFI, British Council, Design Museum,
Demos, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Geffrye Museum, Historic Royal Palaces, ICA,
Kingston Museum, London Remade, London Waterways, Museum of Domestic
Architecture, National Maritime Museum, Natural History Museum, Tate Galleries, V&A Museum, Wellcome Trust, Whitechapel
Gallery…
PROFESSIONAL
STANLEY PICKER
GALLERY
Founded and supported by the Stanley Picker Trust and KU. Recently re-launched.
A University gallery managed by the Faculty One of a handful of London arts
organisations to receive Arts Council England funding in the latest funding programme.
• Stanley Picker fellow and former School of Fine Art Reader Elizabeth Price wins 2012 Turner Prize
• Roberto Feo, and Kingston alumna Rosario Hurtado, the duo behind El Ultimo Grito, the first Stanley Picker Design Fellows, were awarded the prestigious London Design Medal (2012).
RESEARCH
GROUPS
AND CENTRES
Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014
60% Kingston’s submission ‘world leading’
and ‘internationally excellent’ – 4* and 3*
Kingston’s University’s strongest performing unit of assessment was the Faculty’s History of Art, Architecture and Design
AHRC Studentships + Kingston University Studentships
• Contemporary Art Research Centre
• Centre of Research Through Design
• Visual and Material Culture
• Modern Interiors Research Centre
DESIGN
RESEARCH
Research is developed through four distinct areas of excellence within the Centre for Research Through Design
• Through Curating
• Through Making
• Through Social Innovation
• Through Economies
VISUAL AND
MATERIAL
CULTURE
RESEARCH
CENTRE
The Research Centre provides the focus for energetic interdisciplinary research in modern and
contemporary visual and material culture and in the histories of art, film, design and architecture.
• Historical and critical studies
• Place, space, global futures
• Gender, technology and the human image
• Cultural activism research
MODERN
INTERIORS
RESEARCH
CENTRE
Based at Dorich House Museum, the Modern Interiors Research Centre provides a dynamic focus for interdisciplinary research on the design of the modern interior.
Its researchers work in the fields of design history, architectural history, art history, cultural history, and visual, material and
spatial culture.
THE FACULTY OF
ART, DESIGN &
ARCHITECTURE
Find out more:
www.thedesignschool.co.uk
